Journal article
Blood pressure control: missed opportunity or potential Holy Grail?
- Abstract:
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Blood pressure control is a key public health challenge in terms of patient morbidity and mortality from stroke and cardiovascular events and associated healthcare costs. Extensive epidemiological data have strengthened the well-recognised relationship between blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk and have confirmed the importance of blood pressure as a determinant of risk. However, blood pressure goals are achieved in only 25-40% of the patients who take antihypertensive drug treatm...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- American College of Physicians Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Annals of Internal Medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 168
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 147-148.
- Publication date:
- 2017-12-26
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-11-15
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1539-3704
- ISSN:
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0003-4819
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:747124
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uuid:6f1a2988-e633-48df-88bc-ad449d3f8dd3
- Local pid:
- pubs:747124
- Source identifiers:
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747124
- Deposit date:
- 2017-11-21
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- Copyright holder:
- American College of Physicians
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © 2017 American College of Physicians. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from American College of Physicians at: http://dx.doi.org/10.7326/M17-3036
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